The 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 guns aboard the USS Wisconsin were the last ones fired from a US battleship in support of American troops ashore. And they are big — really big.

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

-Modernized in the 1980s, it was equipped with Harpoon anti-ship missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and Phalanx anti-missile guns.-Decommissioned in 2006, the USS Wisconsin now serves as a museum ...

This awesome video, shot on May 16th, 1991, documented the last time the Iowa Class Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fired off its main battery. Watching her 16 inch guns going off in a crescendo ...

“It’s the ultimate for me,” said Battery Chief Robert Durham, who commands the No. 2 turret on the battleship USS Wisconsin. “I live to hear that gun go boom. ...

The USS Wisconsin, which was one of the last battleships the US ever built, saw combat in World War II, the Korean War, and even the Gulf War. ... The 16-inch guns, ...

Wisconsin’s main battery consisted of nine 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns in three-gun turrets, which could fire 2,700-pound (1,225 kg) armor-piercing shells some 23 miles (42.6 km).

The Battleship Wisconsin fired its last shots with massive 16-inch diameter guns on the enemy on Feb. 28, 1991.

If it comes to a shooting war, the crew of the battleship Wisconsin will fire shells made in 1937 out of a gun forged in 1943 from a ship that was commissioned in 1944. Yet many of the 1,500 crew m… ...

After three wars, USS Wisconsin, ... Armed with 16-inch guns that could hit targets more than 20 miles away, it was one of the largest and last battleships ever built.

The Navy lifted a ban on the firing of the battleship USS Wisconsin’s main 16-inch guns Wednesday after declaring some of the guns’ explosive charges safe for use, Pentagon officials said.

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